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All indications are that the CUPE leadership has no intention of allowing Monday’s strike to go ahead. Instead, they are using the strike notice both as a bargaining chip with the government in negotiations and to placate the militancy of the rank-and-file, which is still angered and frustrated by the bureaucracy’s scuttling of their previous strike.
Ontario's education workers have issued a second strike notice, saying contract talks are stalled over the Ford government’s unwillingness to invest more in services for students.
Under threat of a general strike, the Ontario government walked back a controversial law last week. What else could a general strike accomplish?
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Leaders of Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union, and the building trades’ unions conspired with Ontario’s hard-right premier to come up with a mechanism to prevent a general strike in support of education workers targeted by a draconian anti-strike law.